It was the hot, fraught summer of 1963. Every weekend 18-year-old college students Bobbie and Renee Hodges would trek over to the boiling, treeless Torrance housing tract of Southwood Riviera ...

Los Angeles was Raymond Chandler’s muse, mistress, and his making. For his famous anti-hero, private eye Philip Marlowe, it is a torturous, nasty place filled with “tough-looking palm trees ...

A view of the development that would make a new home for Taix on Sunset Boulevard. Renderings courtesy of Los Angeles City Planning If you love old-timey buildings, you probably look at the Echo ...

For those looking to shake up their Halloween routine, may we suggest a leisurely cemetery tour. While all of LA’s graveyards have their fair share of celebs interred, Hollywood Forever Cemetery ...

In 1978, Los Angeles agreed to host the 1984 Summer Olympics and, as described in the official report of the games, a small, secretive organizing committee formed to oversee the delivery and ...

There’s a black-and-white photograph taken in 1953 that shows a crowd of enraptured onlookers staring through the bullet-riddled windows of a Los Angeles diner, one woman cocking a painted ...

Moving to a new city can be hard, especially an unwieldy, disjointed, sprawling metropolis like Los Angeles. One thing that helps ties all Angelenos together? Talking about things we know!

At one time, there were thousands of signs dotting California with labels reading Electrical Products Corporation. From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Electrical Products Corp., also known as EPCO ...

Ask Angelenos for their most vivid memories of the 1984 Summer Olympics and they’ll likely all tell you the same thing: There was no traffic. As locals stared down the date of the opening ...

There are more 50,000 streets in Los Angeles County. They are named after cult leaders (L. Ron Hubbard Way), martyred astronauts (Astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka Street), the view of a lighthouse ...

In the city of Los Angeles, developers are allowed to stray from local zoning codes. In exchange, they must put affordable housing in their projects. Getty Images/iStockphoto A proposal out of ...

The free people mover would connect LAX terminals to Metro’s Crenshaw/LAX Line as well as a forthcoming rental car facility. Renderings courtesy Los Angeles Mayor’s Office Construction is ...